Jeff Clark

VP Litig. @ Oversight Project; fmr. Acting OIRA Admin (OMB); fmr. Double DOJ Ass't Atty Gen'l; admin law expert. Views personal. Affils. for ID purposes only.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

Please watch the new documentary about my struggle fighting against the Democrats trying to destroy me, because I am a strong Trump supporter and thought Georgia investigating its election in 2020 at a deeper level was worth doing.

[Center for Renewing America @amrenewctr]

Fearless at the Point of Attack: The Jeff Clark Story

Our new documentary exposes how the Deep State uses lawfare to target President Trump & his supporters 👇

(3:10) 2020 Election Fraud
(11:08) The SHAM January 6th Committee
(13:29) The DOJ Raids Jeff Clark’s House
(18:44) Fani Willis Makes a Mockery of the Law
(20:43) The DC Bar Seeks Disbarment
(25:53) How to Dismantle the Deep State

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

Fresh off his embarrassing loss in the Democrat primaries for a congressional seat in New York, George Conway has a new show on The Bulwark.

It’s called Psycho Politics.

Psycho is right. The guy is obsessed with his armchair psychoanalysis of Trump.

But he only reveals his own mental pathology and obsession.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

@RealPNavarro Thank you, Peter. I still have my license in good standing.

Though they are still trying to take it away.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The latest Counterlawfare interview features Jeff Clark, one of the sharpest legal minds in America. Elite lawyers rarely join MAGA, much less serve in a Trump administration. Jeff did both. I’m convinced they went after him so viciously because they could not allow him to be AG.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

@reedcode Wrong

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

The White House Counsel's Office has now put the incoming Oversight Chair on written notice, and the letter goes straight to the controlling law. Quoting the Supreme Court in Watkins, investigations "conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible." Congress, it says, cannot use investigations "to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary."

That is the heart of what I've been calling Silly Subpoena Season. "Lawyer up" is not the language of legislating. It's the language of a unchecked prosecutor. And when members brag about handing out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads," as the letter notes, they are building the record a court will read later when it asks whether a subpoena serves a valid legislative purpose. Mazars tells courts to look hard at exactly that, and at breadth, when Congress comes after the President's information.

Don't misread the letter as a refusal to deal. It's the opening move in the accommodation process, which is the Constitution's actual structural answer here. Name the legislation you're considering, tailor the request to it, and negotiate. If that fails, the fight belongs in a civil case.

What it doesn't belong in is a grand jury. That's why Licavoli has to go and why the Navarro case matters now. Oversight is a serious constitutional power. A subpoena is a tool for legislating, not a party favor or a frivolous festival bead.

@RealPNavarro

[Abhi Kambli @AbhiKambli1984]

Jeff’s astute post demonstrates why Navarro v. United States is more important now than ever before. The question we asked SCOTUS to decide is whether someone who believes in good faith that executive privilege prevents compliance with a Congressional subpoena should be forced to go to jail without the opportunity to present this defense to the jury. It is an important question to answer especially with all the Congressional oversight battles that loom over the next two years.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

@WadeMiller 😂😂😂

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

I’m very disappointed to see Judge Rudofsky not get through the process.

But he has responded in the most honorable way possible.

[Kaelan Deese @KaelanDC]

BREAKING: REPUBLICAN Sen. Boozman's refusal to support Lee Rudofsky to the 8th Circuit has tanked his nomination by the Trump admin, a source tells me. Trump will go with the senator's preferred choice, AR Justice Cody Hiland.

Rudofsky has issued a statement:

"I will be forever grateful to President Trump for the honor of his nomination. But under our Constitution—which I believe is the most ingenious document in the history of the world—the President’s nomination must be confirmed by the Senate. And the reality is that, without the support of my home-state Senators, confirmation is simply not a practical possibility in today’s Senate. So I understand completely the President’s decision to withdraw my nomination. Cody Hiland is a solid jurist and a good friend. I look forward to working with him in the federal judiciary.”

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

The President today nominated Texas Supreme Court Justice James Sullivan to the Western District of Texas, OLC head Elliot Gaiser to the Northern District of Texas, and Grayson Lambert to the District of South Carolina.

Expect the objection on Sullivan: Texas voters just removed him. Sen. Cornyn answered it well: "an election result does not diminish a record of ability and integrity." Democrats swept every statewide office in Texas last week, including four Supreme Court seats. That's a verdict on a party label, not on a judge's opinions. Article III life tenure exists precisely so federal judges aren't chosen or removed by that kind of swing.

The bigger clock here isn't only the Senate majority. It's the blue slip. Under current Senate practice, a home-state senator can effectively veto a district court nominee. After January, Texas's home-state signoff runs partly through a Democrat. These seats get filled in the next seven weeks, or they likely sit open, or go to someone very different, for a long time.

Lifetime seats don't wait for the next majority. That was true Saturday, and the blue-slip math makes it more true. Get the signoffs, schedule the hearings, and stay in session.

https://t.co/8ljNoLJTHp

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

The acting U.S. Attorney in western Washington has told the chief judge his office will no longer defend many ICE detention habeas petitions. If no government lawyer appears within seven court days, judges may treat the case as unopposed. It's already happening: one judge has called a petition "intentionally unopposed" and ordered release within 24 hours.

Look at the reason he gave: The petitions are coming in such volume, "often copying from other petitions," that the office can't keep up. That's dozens a week and roughly 2,000 in that district since January 2025, and the border czar puts the national figure around 85,000.

I've been pointing at this model: 10 lawyers on a single Norm Eisen filing, AstroNGOs™️ stacked on amicus briefs. Template litigation at scale turns volume into a resource war the government can't staff. Whoever is behind a given petition, habeas is real and every detainee is entitled to an answer. That's exactly why the answer can't be release by attrition.

The fix is on the government's side of the ledger. Main Justice should surge lawyers to the districts that are drowning, use consolidated responses where petitions are copied, and press the bond-hearing question the Supreme Court is set to take up, which could resolve much of this volume at once. An unanswered petition isn't neutral. It's a policy decision made by whoever files fastest.

DOJ should not be set to relive the punishments of Sisyphus in Hades.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

Democrats keep promising contempt referrals against this Administration's officials come January. Here's what actually happens to one, and why the Navarro case matters more than people realize.

Under the contempt statute, the referral goes to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. In practice, DOJ has treated prosecuting it as a discretionary decision, not a ministerial act.

In 2012 the House held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over Fast and Furious documents. DOJ declined to prosecute, taking the position that the statute can't be applied to an official asserting executive privilege at the President's direction. In 2022, DOJ declined to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino. It charged Peter Navarro.

That asymmetry is the problem. Whether a senior adviser faces prison shouldn't depend on which administration's DOJ receives the referral, or whose adviser he was. Yesterday I said a senior adviser who stands on privilege in good faith shouldn't face a criminal contempt prosecution. The Holder precedent says DOJ agrees, and Holder's team agrees, but only when it helps their side.

That's why I filed in support of Navarro at the Supreme Court, and why Licavoli needs to go. If the Court settles the rule now, before the subpoena tsunami, the next fights over Stephen Miller or anyone else go where the Constitution sends them: negotiation and accommodation, and if that fails, a civil case. Not a grand jury.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:

1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements

Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.

[Kevin Roberts @KevinRobertsTX]

One business, 20 years of displacing American workers with cheap foreign labor. Many defend this, arguing it’s part of the “free market.” But a free market depends on the equal application of the rules. This system exploits the foreigner to undercut the citizen.

[Oversight Project @ItsYourGov]

Buried in the 16th paragraph, “Reuters was not able to independently verify assertions made in either the French or the EU report.”
That’s Reuters’ own admission in yesterday’s “Russian network exploited French riots” exclusive.
This is classic propaganda laundering. 🧵
https://t.co/JmeM1GaMqW

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

Cannot repeat this enough.

Only 15% of Hispanics said immigration was their top issue.

And the GOP won 61% of their vote .

In an election where we suffered a historic wipeout.

Immigration remains the GOP's best issue with virtually ALL major voting groups.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Hispanic voters are primarily driven by economic issues (45%) rather than immigration (15%).

That led to a big Latino swing toward Trump in 2024, and a swing back to Democrats in 2026.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Former Clarence Thomas clerk John Yoo just RIPPED APART Democrats' planned legal weaponization against Chief of Staff Stephen Miller

"You CAN'T really go after Stephen Miller."

"Stephen Miller, and in fact all White House aides, may have a constitutional privilege NOT to appear before Congress because the Supreme Court has recognized that privilege extends to the discussion between the president and his highest aides." 🔥

"There's a long tradition. White House aides do NOT have to testify before Congress because they're just acting as part of the White House."

"Congress doesn't just have a FISHING PERMIT to conduct investigations of whoever it wants for whatever reason." 🎯

So what, they're going to spend their midterm win on trying relentlessly to persecute STEPHEN MILLER?

Because Miller wants to deport illegal aliens and enforce laws CONGRESS PASSED?

What a freaking JOKE.

It's Miller time as of today and they aren't getting past AG Todd Blanche!

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

Please watch my interview with @HansMahncke about Lawfare, Barfare, and the 2020 election.

I think it turned out well.

Has is doing great work at the CounterLawfare Institute.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Here’s the Counterlawfare interview with Jeff Clark. Now more than ever, we need to remember what they do to people who get in their way. I always thought the main reason they came after Jeff was to make absolutely sure he could never be attorney general. https://t.co/UjdWWvbTmx

[Mike Howell @MHowellTweets]

There will be overreach and weaponization.

It will have a massive chilling and intimidation effect.

Innocent people without resources will be quoted exorbitant legal fees.

That's where we come in @ItsYourGov

Never more necessary than now.